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LORD OF BOOTY posted:TerraFormars is... about as racist as something can possibly be by accident, yeah. The author has said as much, and when the humans do encounter the humanoid cockroaches, they are basically cavemen who rapidly advance in technology because of human contact, and he's also stated that the colour of the carapace is dark because that's the colour of cockroaches. I guess it is plausible that it's just a series of unfortunate coincidences, but the manga does nothing to help itself either, really.
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I, Butthole posted:Second Sight (UK) has got the rights for a blu ray release of Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Yeah, I'm proper stoked about this because I missed out on the Arrow Dawn of the Dead set. I hope it comes with the different versions of the film.
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Liar Lyre posted:Not only that, they’re doing Martin too! Please let these see a region A release too! Holy poo poo, loving finally! I've got a few Second Sights and their recent work is excellent. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Hannibal, the film, is stupid. Hannibal, the show, owns bones.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The nice thing about binders is you can usually jam a second disc behind the first one if you try hard enough. Why are you doing this to us?
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How does everyone organise theirs? Alphabetical order, chronological order, etc.?
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Feb 8, 2019 21:50
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I organise mine by genre and sub genre (if I have enough films in a specific one), which is alphabetical. The war movies I own are placed in the order in which the conflict happened. Films in a series are placed in their own smaller shelves, there’s a Batman-specific section and I have an area for auteurs.
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Basebf555 posted:I've tried this and I guess some weird movie focused version of OCD prevents me from being able to maintain it. There's always just too many that straddle two or three categories at once and I feel like whatever I do it can never be fully consistent. Like, if Alien is sci-fi, does that mean Event Horizon is too? I have a hard time making arbitrary decisions like that, I need something more defined like alphabetical or by director. Yeah, in those cases I put the focus on which genre, in my opinion, was the best fit. Case in point, I've placed Dark City and Minority Report in my Noir section, and An American Werewolf in London under Comedy.
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Hirsute posted:Yeah alphabetical order is the only thing that makes sense to me. I have a separate section for box sets but that's alphabetical too, by title of the set or name of the actor/director. Only thing I can't make up my mind on is whether to put films from the same series together even if their titles are pretty different. Like, should I put Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes together? They're not currently but it's kind of bothering me! Here's how you order the Planet of the Apes films Planet of the Apes (Burton) Planet of the Apes (Schaffner) Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Accept no substitutes.
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My Ikea Billy shelves are as follows Current top shelf: Horror Shakespearean adaptations NZ cinema (Manaakitia mai, Aotearoa) Next shelf: Action Crime Next shelf: Comedy/Musical Documentary Noir/Neo-noir Martial Arts Next shelf: Drama Science fiction War Western Animation Next shelf: Auteur section, where the Carpenters, Spielbergs, Scorseses, Coens, PTAs, etc. are collected together Bottom shelf: Various TV shows Elsewhere, films and their sequels are placed together in a bunch of other shelves, so the Rocky/Creed franchise is all together, the Godzillas are all together, the MCU films are together, etc. In cases where the first film of a franchise is directed by an auteur with lesser follow-ups, I make that distinction. For example, Halloween II and the recent Halloween are both in the Horror section, while the original Halloween is in the Auteur shelf with the other Carpenters. One will always trump the other.
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Feb 11, 2019 08:23
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24 Hour Party People is finally getting a blu-ray release, due in 4 months. Here's the US release https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/24-Hour-Party-People-Blu-ray/233296/ UK release https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/24-Hour-Party-People-Blu-ray/186233/
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Feb 15, 2019 21:17
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Attention Kiwi goons that browse this thread: JB Hi-Fi is doing a sale of Fox steelbook blu-rays. I just nabbed Patton and The Hustler. They're also handling some Arrow Video releases, such as Zardoz, so keep an eye out for those.
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Feb 23, 2019 22:44
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Boywhiz88 posted:As the guy who every few months posts in this thread bitching about the lack of “The Abyss” on HD home media, I’m both pumped and skeptical. What if it's only the theatrical cut, and not the superior director's cut?
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Lizard Combatant posted:Yeah my ideal cut of Aliens and T2 would be the theatrical with the sentry and chip scenes put back in. Yeah, the chip scene is the only one that I feel would have added to the theatrical cut. I guess the smile scene is neat in developing John Connor's bond with the Terminator, and seeing Kyle Reese in the dream sequence is neat, but I totally get why they were cut.
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Mar 7, 2019 09:15
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Casimir Radon posted:What a douche. Someone who calls himself "McG" is a douche. The devil you say.
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Mar 8, 2019 04:31
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So, I might have pre-ordered the Japanese deluxe edition blu-ray of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, because I'm a big old loser. https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%80%90A...YVE8B92MG7Z06PJ
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Cemetry Gator posted:But A View to a Kill has the best theme song. A bad Bond can still have a bangin' theme song. Case in point, The World is Not Enough.
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And yet you somehow posted the wrong clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC8dWWImNzU
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The Jack White and Alicia Keys one for Quantum of Solace was pretty bad too. Should've just had Alicia Keys sing, with maybe White play the instruments but then I guess any old bugger could've done that. Still, I prefer it to the Spectre theme song, which is just dreary and boring. I guess as a theme song it's appropriate for the film. CPL593H posted:The theme song for Die Another Day is completely wretched and was dated when it came out. It does in fact seem like a late 90s movie and it came out in 2002. The intro sequence itself is pretty awful too. Yeah, but Die Another Day is so poo poo, that I was feeling positively nostalgic for that poo poo theme song by about 3/4 of the way through. Honestly, Die Another Day would have been so much better if it were a film where Bond is stuck in hostile territory with no gadgets or cars or anything, and has to get out using his training, skill and wits. Certainly would've made for a far more compelling film than the tripe we got.
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RichterIX posted:Is Spectre bad? It's the only Bond movie I've never seen, I just haven't gotten around to it. It’s long, boring, and absolutely bloated.
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Arrow is handling the UK blu-ray release of Lords of Chaos, and have put on an early-bird discount of £12.50. And here's their June releases https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1111648220927717376 They're also getting around to vol 2 of the American Horror Project, featuring Dream No Evil, The Child and Dark August. The US releases are being handled by DiabolikDVD, for the Yanks in here that ask about Arrow's availability in the US.
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Basebf555 posted:It has it's moments that are good, but it's bloated and boring as hell for long stretches too. It's like 2hrs long and needed to be 20 minutes shorter. Spot on. It's a good way to kill 90-odd minutes, and bits like the key in the mouth was great. Shame about the rest of the film.
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Hey, so, Eureka's doing an Easter Sale on UK Amazon. They've put up a list and links to what's on sale: https://eurekavideo.co.uk/news/amazon-easter-sale/?fbclid=IwAR2dQA7kfMusFrPdb_CoUYrn3uzdrhue06MDxG8n5KSUw6WQ0sfrGmeiozo quote:Eureka Classics
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VoodooXT posted:So apparently Second Sight Films has the rights to “Dawn of the Dead” because they just posted an email from DP Michael Gornick about the restoration they’re doing. They’ve got Marty too. I’ll definitely be getting their release, since I missed Arrow’s LE set.
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From the Eureka sale, I ordered Bakumatsu Taiyo-Den, Dragon Inn, La Planete Sauvage, Kuroneko and A Touch of Zen, along with Floating Weeds and Medium Cool, since they were at around the same price anyway.I Before E posted:I assume you mean Martin, not 1955 Best Picture winner Marty starring Ernest Borgnine Yes, I absolutely meant Martin. From what I can tell, it's just the second blu-ray release that film is getting, the first being one in Japan for whatever reason. Interestingly, Arrow had the rights to Martin as well, and they released Martin on DVD in the UK a while ago, but like Dawn of the Dead, they must have lost the rights at some point.
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If you're in a Region B territory, or have a compatible player, Second Sight did a version of it in 2014 which is still in print.
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Good news for our collections, and bad news for our bank accounts! Arrow is doing an Easter sale! https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1118477118856421377
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Phenomena and Opera are the unsung heroes of Argento's filmography I think I've mentioned this before, but I really don't get Giallo. I've seen the genre standards like Phenomena (although I may have watched the wrong version) and Suspiria, and I've really made an effort but I just can't engage with it. It's like when I attempted to watch Arrival. I felt like a real dummy because I just couldn't engage with it and kept getting really restless watching it. I'm not saying they're "bad movies," I just can't get into them at all.
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I, Butthole posted:Grabbed two more Argento titles (Inferno and Phenomena) as well as The Human Condition trilogy. I picked up The Human Condition as well. I'd already got Network previously anyway. I also got My Darling Clementine, The Endless Limited Edition (which comes with a blu-ray copy of Resolution), Irma Vep, Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (which completes my collection of Arrow's New Zealand cinema classics offerings) and Street Mobster. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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david_a posted:I checked out blu-ray.com to see if they have a review yet (no) and I accidentally wound up on their forum thread. Someone getting real salty about Backdraft not being a serious depiction of firefighters There was a subplot about a serial arsonist IIRC. The other thing I remember is that the score was used as the theme song for the original Japanese Iron Chef.
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May 9, 2019 02:36
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Rand Brittain posted:How many people here do use binders as opposed to disc cases? Binders? I find they take up too much space.  Now these things, they're the very model of efficiency. Chuck out the cases, and keep your discs in these. You can even cram about three of them in there.
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Egbert Souse posted:WB just confirmed the 4K of The Shining is the premiere cut with the original ending. Nothing about having all three cuts or audio yet, but it’s only May... All three cuts?
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Yep, just put in an order for that 3-disc version of Oldboy, along with Arrow Video's upcoming release of Being John Malkovich.
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CPL593H posted:Is there anything about John Malkovich that makes it better than Criterion's release or are you just in region 2? I'm a Region B lad, but from what I can tell, the releases are more or less identical, other than the label. Directly from the Arrow listing: Restored from a 4K scan of the original camera negative and approved by director Spike Jonze High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation Original 5.1 DTS-HD master audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Select scene audio commentary by Jonze’s friend and competitor, the filmmaker Michel Gondry John Malkovich and John Hodgman, a conversation between the film’s star and the actor, writer and humourist Strung Along, a new featurette exploring the marionettes made for the film, featuring newly shot interviews with puppeteer Phillip Huber and puppeteer/designer/fabricators Kamela Portuges and Lee Armstrong The 7½ Floor, the full corporate orientation video seen in the film John Horatio Malkovich: Dance of Despair and Disillusionment, the full pseudo-documentary seen in the film An Interview with Director Spike Jonze, a brief chat with the director filmed under duress by Lance Bangs An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Puppeteering, an archival interview with Phillip Huber filmed on set by Lance Bangs An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Background Driving, an on-set look at filming the New Jersey Turnpike sequence by Lance Bangs Don’t Enter Here, There Is Nothing Here Theatrical trailer and TV spots Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vero Navarro FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Roger Keen and archive publicity materials https://www.arrowfilms.com/product-detail/being-john-malkovich-blu-ray/FCD1914
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Boywhiz88 posted:Ugh. Just noticed that Comedy Central released the first 10 seasons of South Park in 2 mega packs. The price is right, I’m missing enough seasons to save money by doing this, and I would save a ton of space... any reason not to go this route? Yes. Boywhiz88 posted:South Park
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Some notable releases for the Region B Brigade Vanishing Point (Fabulous Films) - slipped under this thread's radar, apparently. This one comes with both the US and UK cuts of the film (the UK cut is almost 10 minutes longer, with a mysterious hitch-hiking woman played by Charlotte Rampling at the end of the film that was excised from the film in the US). The Running Man (Fabulous Films) - This one finally gets a UK release (there were releases in continental Europe, and the Australian release seems to have gone out of print). High Noon (Eureka) - An overdue release in the UK, this is being released via Eureka's Masters of Cinema imprint. Definitely worth getting excited about.
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Boywhiz88 posted:V thankful I hadn’t bought any of em yet. Never saw “World’s End” actually. I always felt World's End was the weakest of the trilogy, but I gained an appreciation for it when I built a unit around it for my Y10 English class last year.
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Timby posted:The World's End is the best of the Cornetto trilogy, and I will fight any challenger who approaches. Like I said, I gained a huge appreciation for it. I would argue that Hot Fuzz is the best of the three, but The World's End is a worthy runner-up.
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Empress Brosephine posted:I hated Worlds End when it came out. I should watch it again. I just thought it was trying too hard It clicked with me on my second viewing.
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